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11 September 2012
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“Prof. Missiroli’s election as Director of the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies is an important recognition for Italy. It rewards our country’s engagement in the debate on the future of European defence and testifies to the sound, authoritative nature of our candidacy”. These were Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi’s comments on today’s election in Brussels […]

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11 September 2012
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Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi was “most satisfied” to hear of the appointment of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as President of Somalia. This appointment, said Terzi, “is an important step, a step taken in a spirit of responsibility and respect for the rules by the new Somali Parliament. It sees the completion of the transition and the […]

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10 September 2012
FARNESINA: Diplomacy for growth – Initiatives for Italian companies from Egypt to Israel and the Territories

A series of trade missions and initiatives to facilitate contacts by Italian businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, with possible foreign partners. This will be a key feature of this autumn’s “economic diplomacy” drive to revitalise exports, one of the main growth factors. The starting point will be the Middle East, where Foreign Minister Giulio […]

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Interviews
10 September 2012
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On 16 November 2011, after you’d been appointed to head up the Farnesina, you bade farewell to your staff at the Embassy in Washington. The next day you were sworn in to office by the President of the Republic as the new Minister for Foreign Affairs. What was your last engagement as Ambassador, and your […]

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7 September 2012
Siria – Terzi: linea rossa già passata, far cessare massacri (in translation)

La crisi siriana – con le violenze che non accennano a diminuire – è ancora tra le questioni principali nell’agenda della diplomazia europea e internazionale. Arrivando a Cipro, per la Ministeriale Gymnich, il Ministro Giulio Terzi ha dichiarato che in Siria “la linea rossa è già stata passata” ed ha aggiunto che “bisogna concentrarsi nella […]

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7 September 2012
Syria: red line already crossed, stop the massacres, urges Terzi

“The red line has already been crossed”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi as he arrived at the GYMNICH meeting in Pafos, referring to the Syrian crisis. “We need to concentrate in the EU on stopping these terrible massacres, which have reached an unspeakable peak of violence and that strongly threaten the stability of neighbouring countries. I […]

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7 September 2012
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“We are working on guidelines for an integrated European policy on questions of strategic scope such as defence, energy security, development cooperation, migration policies and freedom of worship”, asserts Minister Giulio Terzi during an interview with Ilsussidiario.net. The head of Italian diplomacy underscores that religious freedom in countries where Christians are being persecuted is at […]

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6 September 2012
Terzi in Ramallah: PNA resolution to risks causing friction

The presentation by the PNA of a resolution for recognition of non-member status “runs the risk of polarizing the debate in the next UN General Assembly and of causing friction of others of the region’s important issues”. Minister Giulio Terzi commented during a meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian President Riyadh Maliki, expressing his own concerns […]

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6 September 2012
MIDEAST: Terzi in Ramallah, then on to Cairo where he visited in July

On the second day of his Middle East mission, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi is in Ramallah, where he has met with Palestinian foreign minister Riad al Malki, to whom he expressed his “concern” over the Palestinian Authority’s decision to present a resolution to the UN for recognition of “non-member status”, which, Terzi said, […]

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5 September 2012
Italy-Israel: Terzi in Jerusalem – Robust relations, your security and ours too

In the light of Italy’s friendship with Israel, Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi started off from Jerusalem on a Middle East mission aimed at strengthening partnerships and economic cooperation, but also to discuss the region’s delicate balances, the peace process, the Iranian nuclear question and the Syrian crisis. Italy-Israel: Terzi, building on already robust […]

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5 September 2012
MIDEAST: Terzi in Israel; meeting with Premier Benjamin Netanyahu

“I believe that economic sanctions should be tightened” as an way to increase pressure on Iran and its nuclear projects. This was the statement by Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu meeting in Jerusalem with Minister for Foreign Affairs Giulio Terzi. “We appreciate what Italy has been doing in that regard, as other European countries also”, he […]

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